All they care about is the power of the National Rifle Association, the money of the NRA, and the votes that the NRA can muster. And they are just oh, so afraid, of alienating gun nuts that they won’t dare vote for gun legislation, even if it makes sense (are you listening, Marco Rubio?)

The bill that failed was incredibly weak, but it was something. It had all sorts of loopholes. Personal sales between neighbors and church members, for example, would have been exempt.

It was just an attempt to do something to get on the road to gun sanity in this nation (are you listening, Marco Rubio?)

But it failed, because too many of the people who are supposed to represent us don’t represent us at all. They represent whomever can help them the most (are you listening Marco Rubio, the man who would be president?)

Rubio was one of the senators who gutlessly wanted to filibuster any gun legislation, essentially stopping any kind of vote. Yeah, a real profile in courage, our Marco.

It was all shameful , and topped off by our own buffoons in the Florida Legislature voting 81-36 in a warning to federal officials not to infringe on the rights of gun owners. When told that the background check bill failed in the U.S. senate, some Florida lawmakers burst into applause in the chamber. These people disgust me, too.

I am sick of hearing that the legislation wouldn’t have stopped the Newtown massacre. It might stop another such tragedy.

I am sick of hearing about second amendment rights being restricted. I am sick of the lies when gun wackos talk about their guns are going to be confiscated.

I am sick of it all.

But mostly I am sick of the people we send to represent us. Are they the best we can find?